Wednesday – Feb. 23

We start with a home game.

“TheWrap’s Celebration of the Best of 2010 Award Season”

Direct Your Car To: Culina at the Four Seasons

StarPower: Over 34 Oscar nominees including Andrew Garfield, Tom Hooper (“The Kings Speech”), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (“Biutiful”), and Best Picture nominees from almost every film in the category. Lots of people in this room will go home with gold on Sunday. Minnie Driver, "Justin Bieber Never Say Never" director Jon Chu,Moby, and other faces will also be in the mix.

Goodies: A 25 year bottle of Chivas from Pernod, a piece from Christian Laboutin, and a stay at the host venue (The Four Seasons) is up for grabs in a silent auction.

“Weinstein/Dior Dinner”

Direct Your Car To: The Chateau Marmont

From the Four Seasons, Weinstein will head over to the Chateau Marmont for The Weinstein Co’s dinner with Dior. Don’t feel bad if this invite got lost in the mail. There’s only 60 place cards on the table. They’ll be cracking open Moet & Chandon, which should get its own statute as the official champagne of the Oscar ceremony (literally) and as one of the most prolific sponsors at multiple Oscar week events. (Disclosure: They’re sponsoring TheWRAP’s event also.)

“Pieces of Heaven” Art Auction

Direct Your Chrysler Car Service to: Siren Studios

As a board member of the celeb-friendly Art of Elysium, Kavanaugh will likely be heading to Sunset and Gower. A handful of name brands are banding together for the AofE’s “Pieces of Heaven”Art Auction. No stranger to collaborations, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (who hosted the most high wattage New Year’s Bash with Jay-Z and Coldplay) partners with Christie’s for the event. This is an official Vanity Fair Campaign Hollywood event (more on the “Campaign” below).

Logline: Expect lots of well dressed young Hollywood at a sneakers-free event within a highly manicured space.

Goodies: If your price is right, you could go home with one of the 75 works donated by artists, dealers, and private collectors in support of Art of Elysium’s programs that get big names to donate their time and talent for seriously ill children.

Global Green USA’s 8th Annual Pre-Oscar® Party

Look for: The Chevy Volt Electric Car Parked outside The Avalon

Logline: Tom Cruise rocked out in the balcony a few years ago and Leonardo DiCaprio’s been a long time supporter of this annual big-box concert renewing Hollywood’s passion to for greener cities and a cooler planet.

Thursday – Feb. 24

“4th Annual Hollywood Domino Gala”

Direct Your Sponsored Mercedes Car Service to: The Sunset Tower Hotel

Logline: When bon vivant Seth MacFarlane has anything to do with a party, it’s going to be good. The “Family Guy” creator performs with a jazz orchestra at a themed gala to benefit the Seven Bar Foundation. Yes, the party is also about playing dominoes.

Search Engine Switch?: Amongst Circa, Rums of Puerto Rico, and others, Microsoft’s Hollywood-minded search engine “Bing” is onboard as a sponsor. In 2008, MacFarlane and Bing-rival Google partnered on a large content and marketing deal.

Goodies: If you’re a big enough name, organizers will get you a ride there and back in one of Mercedes’ S400 sedans with the hydrogen fuel cell.

“Vanity Fair’s Campaign Hollywood Thursday: Fox Searchlight”

Direct the car to: Bar Marmont

VF is not just Sunday night’s legendary Oscar party. “Campaign Hollywood” stretches the prestige in to a week of events for advertisers who make year-long commitments to the Conde Nast publication. The publisher bridges key advertisers to Hollywood’s big week. This year Chrysler and L’Oreal have stepped up to be the co-“campaigners”.

While Variety sponsors the Gibbons event, The Hollywood Reporter re-ups with party-friendly Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for their second annual Nominees’ party at the Mayor’s residence near Hancock Park.

Earlier in the day, Essence brings together “Black Women in Hollywood” for a luncheon.

Friday – Feb. 26

“Women in Film Cocktail Party”

Direct Your Car to: Soho House

Logline: Women in Film kickstarted the kudos early. They singled out “The Kids Are All Right” writer/director Lisa Cholodenko at the group’s annual Crystal + Lucy Awards last June. Eight months later they’ve relocated their posh pre-Oscar weekend happy hour soiree from Peter Guber’s Bel-Air estate to equally lofty real estate in the popular Roof Garden at Soho House.

What to Expect: A few heartfelt toasts met with genuine attention by a crowd of about 200. Organizers promise “Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut Champagne will be flowing” at the event that usually has an army of roaming bottle butlers within arm’s reach at all times.

The Goodies: MAC’s Director of Makeup Artistry Gregory Arlt picked the bouquet of beauty products going in to the giftbags alongside freebies from Max Mara.

“The Agency Parties”

ICM, WME, and CAA all chose Friday night.

ICM brings its competing nominees together for a dinner party at a private residence: Best Supporting Actress nominees Melissa Leo, Jacki Weaver, and Hailee Steinfeld will break bread around the same table, as Cinematography competitors Wally Pfister (“Inception”) and Roger Deakins (“True Grit”) will also rub elbows. Jesse Eisenberg, Tom Hooper, and editor competitors Jon Harris (“127 Hours”) and Andrew Weisblum (“Black Swan”) are also on the list.

At the same time, Bryan Lourd gathers CAA’s elite at a private residence, while Ari Emanuel hosts his annual WME clients-only party at his house. To further close ranks, Emanuel revoked sponsorship integrations last week.

According to L.A. Social Diary The Daily Truffle, WME is taking over Bungalow One at the Chateau on Saturday night for a “more fun” party.

VF’s “Campaign Hollywood” Friday: “DJ Night at Palihouse”

Logline: The 37-room boutique hotel on Holloway serves as ground zero for “Campaign Hollywood” all week, but this is the night VF lets down its hair, turning down the lights for a party in the Parlour.

Who to Expect: Sofia Vergara and Jennifer Love Hewitt have their dancing shoes laced. Music by female DJ’s including Mia Moretti.

Sponsors: L’Oreal Paris and Lucky Brand Jeans.

Up the street on the London Hotel Rooftop, OK Magazine celebrates the British nominees. BritWeek, a group that promotes relationships between California and Britain, joins the celeb weekly in throwing the party that will host a Raisinets screening room on site. No word on whether they’ll be screening “The Kings Speech” for film slackers still cramming at the last minute.

Saturday – Feb. 26

“Spirit Awards Swag”

Direct Your Car To: The Beach in Santa Monica

Rise and shine: It’s worth getting up early for the Official Presenters’ Gift Lounge at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

Free 3D TV’s anyone? LG will ask stars to “tune in for charity” on their next generation 3D displays on the carpet and backstage. A few participants will go home with the LG’s new “Cinema 3D Television”. In case the lucky recipients ever want to go out to the old-school cinema again, AMC Theatres will be gifting the holy grail “free movies for a year” pass (includes a +1). The Ritz Carlton at Central Park tosses in a free suite stay.

Varisty gift-ologists On 3 Productions open the doors to the mega swag at 11:30 AM inside the beachside compound. Even the suite-shy Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hit this in the past.

Nearby, any physical imperfections or residual crustiness from the night before can be cured courtesy of Elle Magazine and Aveeno at the Miramar. Full beauty, facial, and massage services allow VIP invitees to turn the jaunt west of the 405 in to a quickie spa weekend.

“The MPTF Night Before Benefit”

Logline: You’re not invited. If you were, you would already know that Jeffrey Katzenberg’s MPTF benefit is poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the dress is casual, and you don’t need a gift bag ever.

This totally press-free event could witness the six year-in-the-making Brangelina Aniston awkward moment.

“Peter Travers and Rolling Stone”

Direct Your Car to: Drai’s at The W Hollywood

Logline: “The Social Network” marketing team leveraged critic Peter Travers’ “film that defines a decade” line in to the advertising pull-quote that defined a year. On Saturday, the Rolling Stone film chief and his editors cap awards season with DJ Questlove and The Roots in Hollywood.

Foiled by the Oscars Themselves: The magazine’s branded restaurant and lounge RS/LA opens for regular service at Hollywood and Highland on Monday, but couldn’t host Saturday night’s events due to the Academy’s rules on venues in the complex.

Come Early for a Safari?: At a separate daytime event in the hotel, the GBK suite will be gifting a $30,000 all-inclusive trip to the Zamani Retreat Kempinski, a holistic health retreat in Zanzibar. Inside the hotel chain known for heavenly bedding, it’s appropriate that GBK will also be gifting $4000 ComforPedic mattresses. The suite runs Friday and Saturday.

Sunday – Feb. 27

Direct your car to: the custom built tent at the Pacific Design Center

Logline: Florence (of “the Machine”) comes straight from her performance at the Academy Awards to Sir Elton’s stage. To date, John’s annual mega-benefit has raised over $25 million for AIDS research. The 9 ½ hour parade of talent down the carpet and through the tent reads like the pages of People magazine, as this is a party that’s part of the non-industry vernacular. This year, chef Ludo Lefebvre (of the popular “touring” restaurant LudoBites) serves the awards telecast meal.

How you can virtually attend: Follow Me (@CelebSightings) for live updates and details from inside.

“Vanity Fair”

Direct Your Car to: Security Checkpoint #1 of 3 on Sunset Blvd.

Logline: All Killer, No filler. Also no giftbags. Top photographers picked to work inside events every night testify that even shooting outside arrivals at this A-list event impacts their bottom line for the entire year.

Who: All the winners, all the non-winners, and lots of first namers. In case you’re wondering, the VIP section is the entire block surrounding the Sunset Tower. There’s no segregation once inside.

Staggered “arrival times” manage the flow. 150 Guests are invited for dinner. 500 more will pass behind the giant wall blocking lookie-loos on Sunset. Some get to arrive right after the show while others must cool their heels for three and a half hours until the last arrival slot at midnight. (Last year Ben Silverman was given notice that he arrived a few minutes too early.)

Who Creates the List: Graydon Carter, Sara Marks, and Jane Sarkin are the power troika, but “some others are involved” according to an inside source.

What’s your best chance of gaining entry? Hope you win. “A little gold man always helps,” said one of the event’s producers.

How you can follow along: VF Executive Digital Editor Mike Hogan(@M1keH0gan) will be live tweeting from inside. Additional live inside coverage will be pushed out over VF’s special Iphone and Ipad Apps.

“Governor’s Ball”

Location: Upstairs at Hollywood and Highland’s Grand Ballroom.

Logline: Where winners bring their statutes to get personalized nameplates before bailing for other parties. While they wait, they can munch on one of 9000 Oscar shaped edibles prepped by Wolfgang Puck or celebrate with 1,200 bottles of Moet. Sequoia Productions produces the event for the 22nd year in a row, the same producers who handle the Primetime Emmys Governors’ Ball.

“Late Night”

After the credits roll, James Franco will kick off his own party at the Supperclub around 11 P.M. 300 guests are expected to help the host and (possible winner) decompress with ubiquitous sponsors Grey Goose and Bing at the deep Hollywood Blvd. venue.

Meanwhile up in the hills, Guy O’Seary andMadonna will again host a late-night mansion party. If there’s any leaks on this one, expect it to come from Ashton Kutcher (@AplusK) who tweeted videos from inside a similar event in the past.

Good night and Good luck.

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Mikey Glazer is always on the list. He’s been covering events since his kindergarten’s Valentine’s Day cookie party, graduating to become a nightly insider on Hollywood party circuit. He has contributed from behind the velvet rope for E! Entertainment Radio, US Weekly, and created the popular live celebrity sightings twitter @CelebSightings. Please send invitations here.